Obamaboom Watch: Oscar Ad Sales
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Ad sales during the Oscars are doing quite well. Recently we’ve seen upticks in ad revenues, especially at big companies like Google. There’s also been positive movement for auto sales.
We’re clearly not out of the woods yet, but I think when we look back at the history of the Great Recession we’ll realize we were in the turnaround days.
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You just gotta love Oliver. He writes a “when you look back at history…” post 24 hours before Obama releases the next unemployment report that they’re ALREADY making excuses for.
Exactly, Save. And it has nothing at all whatsoever to do with the White House marketing plan he was the target of.
You believe we are in the “turnaround days” because ad sales for the Academy Awards are up? I can’t believe you wrote that, Oliver. Please tell us that it wasn’t you.
The box office indicator….When times get tough, consumers beeline to the movies.
This is nothing new.
What’s new is that it’s being spun here now as an Obamaboom.
As sales at the Oscars. Give me a break.
Believe it, PT Cruiser.
What’s a bit more hard to believe is where are Wikipedia and google aficionados and OW foot soldiers Sean D. Martin, fafaroo and Quaker to do damage control for him on these Joe Biden-like gaffes of his.
That’s what I like about Dennis, he’s actively afraid of the recession coming to an end.
Here’s an opinion from someone who looves them some Sarah Palin almost as much as Dennis does:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-continetti3-2010mar03,0,2342290.story
Dark Avenger, being amused at Oliver for pointing to ad sales being up for the Oscars and calling it an Obamaboom does not in any way mean I’m actively afraid of the recession coming to an end. That is absurd.
You guys call yourselves reality-based and on the side of science, yet you always seem to have to stretch the truth if not just plain lie to make any kind of point on here.
I call them as I sees them, Dennis.
Why don’t you create your own blog instead of coming here to bitch and moan everytime Oliver writes something positive about Obama?
Oh, I forgot, you’re too stupid to run your own blog, you’ve reached the limit of your abilities when you comment here.
Sorry about that.
DFtT.
Just a thought.
Bullshit, Dark Avenger. I do want to see the recession end and I’ve never shown or said anything to the contrary, so no, you don’t call them as you see them. You call them as you want to see them and what you don’t see you simply just make it up.
See what I mean DA (et al)? And endless trickle of troll self-absorption and troll self-victimization.
So don’t feed the troll. (Or do if you feel like it.)
Just a thought.
@PT:
ABC, part of the Walt Disney Company, is charging sponsors an estimated $1.4 million to $1.5 million for each 30-second spot running nationally in the show. Although that is less than the estimated $1.7 million the network charged in 2008, it is better than the estimated $1.3 million that advertisers paid last year, when the recession crimped demand significantly.
I.E. demand higher this year than last. I’m no economist but that strikes me as good news. Why do you find that so crazy?
You’ve said the exact same thing twenty times now in the last two days, Mr. Self-Absorption.
Physician, heal thyself.
You really didn’t read and absorb what I linked to, did you, Dennis?
The gist of it is, don’t count Obama out yet this far out from the elections in November, even if Oliver is totally wrong about the Oscar ad sales as a data point in favor of the current recession coming to an end.
If Obama walked on water tomorrow, you’d say it proves how elitist he was not to use a boat or swim like everyone else does.
Dennis didn’t actually read the article.
OW foot soldiers Sean D. Martin, fafaroo and Quaker to do damage control for him on these Joe Biden-like gaffes of his
Moved on from picking your fights one by one, Den’? What the hell are you talking about?
If Obama walked on water tomorrow, you’d say it proves…that Obama can’t swim!
Quaker, do you actually agree with Oliver and fafaroo that increased as sales for the Oscars this year vs. a depressed year last year is confirmation of an Obamaboom?
I think it’s a rather trivial glimmer of good news in a difficult economy. Why do you ask?
Because it’s the headline, Quaker.
And it’s a ridiculous contention.
And it’s coming from a guy who just announced that he wasn’t influenced at all by his recent invitation to the White House when they asked him to do just exactly what he’s doing here.
Because it’s the headline, Quaker.
And it’s a ridiculous contention.
No, Lunk. What I want to know is: Why ask me? Until your display of I-can-like-anyone-here belligerence, the topic didn’t interest me enough to make a comment.
Anyway, there’s my answer. What of it?
You’re a strange one, Quaker. You asked me what I was talking about and I told you. Then I asked you if you agreed with Oliver that this was a sign of an Obamaboom. Why do I ask you? Because you asked me a question. Two, actually, that I answered. And no,the topic didn’t interest you. Not till I commented on it, at least. Then you and fafaroo suddenly have an interest. So that’s why I ask you if you agree with the title.
You’re the lunk, dude.
Then we’re back where we started: Picking your fights wholesale now?
This didn’t start when I asked what you were talking about. This started when you called me out by name.
Yesterday you whined that people only show up to comment to pick on you. Today you’re begging for attention. And you call others strange?
Now are you going to talk about the topic or yourself?
Here’s another headline for you, Dennis:
Himself. Everybody knows that. I wonder how much more self-absorbed troll would get if he weren’t fed? (DFtT.)
Just a thought.
And here’s another headline:
The larger point being that ad sales for major TV events such as the Super Bowl and the Oscars can be indicators of current and future economic activity and they have always been read as such during periods of flux.
Oliver’s head clearly states: “Obamaboom Watch: Oscar Ad Sales.
Note my emphasis on “Watch” Dennis. Any person of reasonable intelligence and not ill will can see that Oliver is suggesting this is a sign that a boom is coming, not that it’s already here.
Whether a “boom” is coming or not, Oliver clearly writes in the post that Oscar ad sales are a sign that we are “in the turnaround days.”
An increase in ad sales at the Oscars and the Super Bowl between this year and last, would seem to indicate just that, Dennis.
We already knew that were fond of plagiarizing headlines.
Now we know that you don’t read much past them either.
Link: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/time_to_go_long_on_ads_iuNuQpi3NI4TIbBct5zBkM
fafaroo- another wonderful example of you being the good little blogger soldier.
My advice to you is to stop digging.
If in early 2008 before the financial meltdown in late summer early fall when things were looking shaky for employment but the stock market was still doing relatively well someone here had put up a link and a headline that said “Bushboom Watch: Oscar ad sales” , Oliver would have at least these two comments for sure 1) Bwahahahaha, and 2) Let them eat cake.
And you like you always do would back him.
And both your examples were for the Super Bowl. A lot different than the Oscars, my friend, despite your feeble attempts to equate the two.
And what with the word “Obamaboom”, fafaroo? The only Obamaboom going on worth watching is in the government sector.
Note my emphasis on “Watch” Dennis. Any person of reasonable intelligence and not ill will can see that Oliver is suggesting this is a sign that a boom is coming, not that it’s already here.
Yes, your emphasis is noted. Oliver is clearly doing what he and you both stated in the the other thread that he wasn’t doing after his trip to the White House. He’s carrying water for them. A trivial financial indicator at best that he’d neve pay the slightest bit of attention to had he not been asked to do things like this.
He’s carrying the water and you’re running right behind him with sponges trying to sop up the spills, fafaroo.
I am thoroughly embarrassed for you.
A trivial financial indicator at best that he’d neve pay the slightest bit of attention to had he not been asked to do things like this.
Yes, Dennis, it’s a trivial financial indicator, the kind that the NY Times felt was interesting enough to write a piece on. Of course, since you believe the NY Times is carrying water for Obama too, no doubt, I would like to hear your explanation for why the NY Post did a similar type story on Super Bowl ad sales.
Face it, Dennis, this is a very familiar story that gets written about practically every year around the Super Bowl and Oscars: Are ad sales up or down and what does it mean?
Oliver support Obama. I know. It’s a shocking secret that Oliver was able to keep under wraps until you sniffed it out and forced him to admit it, Dennis. So now when Oliver links to a positive economic story it’s all propaganda and lies. Even though it isn’t. Ad sales at the Oscars are, in fact, up. And that does mean something of note. Perhaps you should try reading the full article that Oliver linked to, Dennis.
Of course, the best part about all of this is now you suddenly have a problem with trying to talk the economy up.
Last year at this time you were clocking practically every hourly down tick in the stock market as evidence that Obama was talking the economy down — and doing it deliberately so he could hasten the rise of his socialist empire.
Now, when Obama and his “minions” are trying to spread some economic good cheer, you think it’s the foulest sort of lies and propaganda.
You’re a hack, Dennis. A complete and total hack.
You’ve already admitted you’re a plagiarist, Dennis.
Now just admit you’re a hack and you can finally start to feel better about yourself.
How long do you intend to pursue this campaign?
And both your examples were for the Super Bowl. A lot different than the Oscars, my friend, despite your feeble attempts to equate the two.
Yes, Dennis. The article about the Oscars is in the link in Oliver’s main post. Perhaps you missed it as you pissed yourself over the headline?
But just for you big guy, here’s the trade paper take:
August 2009: “If it’s anything like the last time we had a Democratic president, we’re due for an Obama Boom.”
Even for you, your game has gotten considerably weaker in the last couple months.
ObamaBOOM fafaroo!!!!
Goodness gracious, you guys are too funny.
Sorry, though, fafaroo, yes, it’s an improving economy over last year this time. That’s how economic cycles go. Nothing in your article to support an Obamaboom.
Or an Obamboom watch, either.
Dolt.
You shouldn’t have to ask your sycophant bloggers to spread good economic cheer with descriptions like “Obamaboom”, fafaroo. If we’re indeed in an Obamaboom, believe me, the word won’t need to filter down through the nutroots and all their good little blogger soldiers like you.
Meh. Beats me. Care to participate? Sean D. Martin is on board. Might be interesting. As noted elsewhere, I’ve been as guilty as any in the past, but trolls really shouldn’t be fed. They should instead get their own darn blog.
Trolls don’t have to be fed. We already know how they feel (i.e., extremely self-important). You don’t have to join the cause, but you’re entirely welcome to do so.
As George W Bush said, we will respond to our adversaries at a time and place of our choosing.
Sorry, though, fafaroo, yes, it’s an improving economy over last year this time. That’s how economic cycles go. Nothing in your article to support an Obamaboom.
Dennis if you agree that better ad sales at the Oscars are a sign that the economy is improving what the fuck is your problem with the post them?
Oh, that Oliver declared the current economy a “boom”? Except only he didn’t. He is clearly anticipating a boom, hence the title of what we can apparently expect will be an on going series, “Obamaboom Watch,” but as for the actual fact of better ad sales at this year’s Oscars Oliver only said that it was evidence of “turnaround” in the economy.
So you agree with Oliver on the central point of the post and yet you’re still here pissing yourself over it.
Why is that?
If we’re indeed in an Obamaboom, believe me, the word won’t need to filter down through the nutroots and all their good little blogger soldiers like you.
Hilarious. First of all, Oliver did not say we were in a “boom,” that’s you being an idiot.
Second, you complained at this point last year that Obama wasn’t doing enough to talk up the economy and that, in fact, he was talking it down.
Now you claim that if he talks up the economy it’s obviously bullshit because everyone would know already if the economy was really good.
So no matter what Obama says about the economy, as long as he tells the truth, he’s a lying sack of shit.
Check.
Yeah, well, as with invading Iraq, feeding the troll ain’t worth it. (No WMDs here, no siree.)
Very well. Your position is noted.
Be advised that relentless hectoring about “feeding the troll” may quickly become as tiresome as the trolling it seeks to eliminate.
Roger. Self-awareness noted and irony detectors deployed.
For the great Jon Swift (if not in his inimitable style)!
Certain regulars here have raised troll-feeding and troll abuse to an art form.
Indeed.
Except you cheerlead against a recovery every day. As much as I loathe George W. Bush, its not like I wanted the global economy to collapse on his watch. Similarly, it wouldn’t kill you to want an economic recovery even if it happens under Barry X Mustafa Hussein.
xcept you cheerlead against a recovery every day. As much as I loathe George W. Bush, its not like I wanted the global economy to collapse on his watch. Similarly, it wouldn’t kill you to want an economic recovery even if it happens under Barry X Mustafa Hussein.
You’re wrong, Oliver. I do want an economic recovery.
Calling bullshit on you for claiming an increase in y-o-y ad sales for the Oscars is a precursor to an Obamaboom after the White House asked you as a compliant liberal blogger to go out and do such a thing is not cheerleading against a recovery.
Sorry, it just isn’t.
As much as I loathe George W. Bush, its not like I wanted the global economy to collapse on his watch.
This is simply not true, either, Oliver.
This is just one example of your doing just such a thing.
Sweet Jesus: Forget Republican Recession, Hello Republican Depression
That was cheering, my friend.
Or here, April 2008:
Republican Recession Watch: 80,000 Jobs Lost In March And John McCain Doesn’t Know Much About Economics
We lost 80,000 jobs and the unemployment rate jumped from 4.8% to 5.1% and you say “Welcome to the suck.”
When it’s during a Republican administration, your header is “Republican Recession Watch” for a 5.1% unemployment rate. Under the Democratic president for who you were just invited over to the WH to counter bad economic press he’s getting with unemployment at 9.7% and real unemployment at 17%, now your header is “Obamaboom Watch” because you happen to notice an increase in ad sales for the Oscars this year vs. last year.
And I’m the cheerleader. Yeesh.
before Obama releases the next unemployment report that they’re ALREADY making excuses for.
How’d that turn out?